JSU Seeks Legal Action Against Grambling, SWAC...


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It truly amazes me how so called educated people are so slow to understand basic business principles or basic legal ones. Let me attempt to help some of you here! BTW... I'm not an attorney! But I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express!;)

IF, JSU was to indeed pursue it's legal right to be made whole from this fiasco through any court proceeding. We would ask for two basic things:
1. To be compensated for the loss revenue that was caused for the cancelation of the Homecoming game! This is called "Compensatory Damages"
2. To punish the party that cause such this Hardship, i.e... Grambling! This is called "Punitive Damages"

Stay with me here.

If the courts were to say, Grambling must play in Jackson for the next 4 years, this would be the punishment. Any revenue that is derived from this would be simply a bi-product of the punishment and not compensation! The compensation would have to be spelled out exactly to be considered compensatory. It would be impossible to do this over a series of games with so many unknown factors playing a part in that math.

The compensatory damages will take in account ALL proceeds that the school (JSU) would have realized through the game and subsequent events surrounding the game...Ticket sales, parking, concessions, apparel sales... to name a few. Things that can be measured through historical means.

To sum it up, Grambling playing multiple games in Jackson does not constitute being made whole from a compensatory perspective, so please stop trying to make it so.

BTW... I'm not in favor of suing!
 
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JayRob said:
Seems like they chose the "wrong" school to pull this stunt on, now it's coming back to haunt the entire Grambling family.:smh:
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Man, please...don't do that. Don't poke your chest out. As unfortunate as that situation was, do not think for a moment that we are somehow "haunted" by what you THINK you are going to do to us. Folks are not losing sleep over this.

Sheesh!!!
 



SAME OLD G said:
I say this respectfully, those kids didn't give a damn about it being J-State's homecoming. It could have been any SWAC school. It just so happens that your school was the team we were scheduled to play that week.
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*Writes That Down* Great, but the timing is still off. Why not boycott Alcorn? Why end it before txsou? You bocotted 1 game and played with the same conditions the very next week. So I will say this just as respectfully as you did: We know they did not care..which is cool. Which is why we do not give a damn about Gram's internal issues and lack of institutional control. Currency Consequences, run the money we are owed.
 
Tigerpride said:
LOL.. dude when have you NOT seen that in a contract? Even when I review patents, they use that language.

Again.... I think you are playing dumb.
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Dude I work with contracts daily. I just pulled up one of our contracts and we list every single thing that is included as "Force Majeure" without using the words "including but not limited to". Even have a clause that lists what it does NOT include.
 
Bleedbluefan said:
Not too fond of legal talk...but ummm, how did the players bounce back and play their next scheduled game? I understand not wanting to play in those horrid conditions but it starts to not look genuine when you play the week before jsu, skip us, and play your next opponent. You showed up to YOUR games despite those conditions, showed up to YOUR homecoming despite those conditions. Idk if we will get half or even a quarter of a mil but $50k and a few home games is like giving me a dollar after you caused me to lose $100.
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From your description it sounds like GSU just said EFF JSU.
 
SAME OLD G said:
Man, please...don't do that. Don't poke your chest out. As unfortunate as that situation was, do not think for a moment that we are somehow "haunted" by what you THINK you are going to do to us. Folks are not losing sleep over this.

Sheesh!!!
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Not poking one's chest out, but it seems to me that it would've been better to have boycotted someone else's game. The revenue part would've been a bit lower for sure.
 
Robber said:
They are all Grambling tho. Gram can't be separated from the team, administrators or whoever signed the contract.
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So if a disgruntled JSU player does something to prevent the team from playing in a game (slashed tires, stolen equipment, etc), then JSU is liable?
 
until the Mississippi AG files a lawsuit against Grambling and the State of Louisiana, all this is for nothing, Rick Gallot, State Senator and Grambling Alum, has already had a discussion with the Louisiana AG and Bobby Jindal, and both have agreed to take the lead in this lawsuit and if they were to loss to push the settlement to the back of the line. it's in the best interest of both Universities to reach a mutual agreement out of court, because both AGs will drag this out.
 



You do know Jindal and whomever else can't affect the court docket in a Mississippi court don't you? It will depend what court the case is filed in and if it's federal or not which I doubt very seriously! That's just all talk. They can keep appealing a ruling but that runs out as well.
GramblingMan2009 said:
until the Mississippi AG files a lawsuit against Grambling and the State of Louisiana, all this is for nothing, Rick Gallot, State Senator and Grambling Alum, has already had a discussion with the Louisiana AG and Bobby Jindal, and both have agreed to take the lead in this lawsuit and if they were to loss to push the settlement to the back of the line. it's in the best interest of both Universities to reach a mutual agreement out of court, because both AGs will drag this out.
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Voice of Reason said:
You do know Jindal and whomever else can't affect the court docket in a Mississippi court don't you? It will depend what court the case is filed in and if it's federal or not which I doubt very seriously! That's just all talk. They can keep appealing a ruling but that runs out as well.
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He said "if they were to lose".... meaning the state of Louisiana would drag out the payment process if they lost a lawsuit.
 
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